Pirate Bay Co-founder Arrested In Thailand

36-year-old Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, who uses the alias TiAmo, is the last co-founder of popular file-sharing website, Pirate Bay. Lately, this person has been apprehended by immigration police of Thailand.

The Pirate Bay was launched in Sweden in 2003. But in 2009, Swedish courts convicted Fredrik Neij for sharing copyrighted material worth of $5 million via Pirate Bay. After being convicted, he fled the country and since then he had been playing hide and seek with the police of different countries.

But last Tuesday (November 4), Neij was crossing the border between Laos and Thailand and at then, immigration police of Thailand arrested him. Now Neij has been sent to Bangkok and from there, he will be extradited to Sweden.

It is to be noted here that this is not the first time Pirate Bay co-founders have been arrested. In May of this year, Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde was arrested in Sweden for his role in running the site, and a third co-founder, Gottfrid Svartholm, was arrested in September, has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison this Monday (November 3), for hacking the American tech company CSC in 2012.